[California]. [Mining]

Map of Mining Ground Situated on Manzanita Hill Near Sweetlands As Surveyed for the Manzanita Mining Co. [manuscript title]

Sweetland, Ca. 1867. Hand-colored manuscript map, approximately 15 x 21.5 inches. Matted and in corner mounts. Mounted on linen. A few short closed tears and minor chips at edges, not entering map area. Horizontal crease across center of map. Light tanning and scattered foxing. About very good. Item #2904

A neatly composed and hand-colored manuscript of the Manzanita mine in the Sweetland mining district, located in Nevada County, California. The settlement of Sweetland was established in 1850 by the Sweetland brothers, who operated a trading post there in the early 1850s. The Manzanita mine was one of the largest in the district and the Manzanita Company was listed in the famous 1867 Bean's Directory of Nevada County, contemporaneous to the drawing of the present map. It is unclear, however, whether the company enjoyed much ultimate success.

Here, the claims of the Manzanita Company, along with those of the Administration Company, and the Rough & Ready and Buck & Breck claims, are delineated in black ink and hand shaded in six colors. Claims that were apparently established subsequent to in both pencil and light blue ink, and are labeled Tennessee, Kentucky, Fremont, Prospect, Riley & Graham, and so on. A note at the bottom right corner states that the map, composed from a survey completed in November 1867, was "filed Feby 5th 1868 at 3 o'clock P.M. and recorded at the request of H.S. Bradley," the county surveyor. In all, a quite attractive and informative manuscript California mining map composed just after the Civil War, that evidently does not conform to any printed cartographic examples relating to these claims.

Price: $2,250.00